Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the newly established Virtual Experiential Museum (VEM) in a Centrally Protected Monument under Archeological Survey of India, Man – Mahal, situated on the bank of the Ganges near holy Dashashwamedh Ghat at Varanasi today. Virtual Experiential Museum has been…

India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), the public sector undertaking under the aegis of Ministry of Tourism, registered a respectable performance in the 3rd quarter of the current financial year 2018-19. The total turnover in third quarter ending December 2018 stood at Rs. 100.77 cr as…

Tourism is an integral part of the world economy and its role in the global economic activity will only grow in the future. According to UNWTO, more than 1.4 billion people travelled in 2018 generating a staggering US$ 1.4 trillion in international tourism receipts. The…

The recently concluded PATA Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism Conference and Mart 2019in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India witnessed a good response from adventure tour operators. “The event aims to be a catalyst for generating new ideas and improving collaboration between public and private sector organizations,” Mario…

The Ministry of Tourism has been working very closely with Ministry of Home Affairs for easing of the visa regime in the country over a period of time to make it more tourist friendly. Currently, the e-Tourist Visa is applicable to 166 countries. According to…

According to the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), India´s as well as the South Asia’s position in the world tourism is increasingly becoming more significant both as a destination and as a source market. Tourism is among one of the leading economic sectors of the…

The top ten revenue generating monuments during 2015-18 are Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Qutub Minar, Red Fort, Humayun’s Tomb, Sun Temple Konark, Group of monuments Mamallapuram, Ellora Caves, Group of monuments Khajuraho, and Ajanta Caves, Aurangabad. The year wise details of expenditure incurred for conservation…

The Interim Union Budget of India for the year 2019, presented by the acting Finance Minster Piyush Goyal, did not have much for the tourism industry to go gung-ho over it. But, the budget has various elements which in a way will play a key…

According to the Ministry of Tourism, the Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) during the period January -December 2018 were 10.55 million as compared to 10.03 million in January-December 2017 registering a growth of 5.2 per cent. FTAs in December 2018 were 1.19 million as compared to…

The celebration of ‘Bharat Parv’ concluded recently at Red Fort in the presence of K J Alphons, Union Tourism Minister. The Parv was organized by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India at the Red Fort, New Delhi from 26th to 31st January, 2019. The…